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...think barbs would sting less when they come from the velvet tonsils of a network news anchor. Apparently not, at least not when they're delivered about a fellow evening star. After CBS newsman DAN RATHER used the word "news-lite" several times to describe his competitors' newscasts in an otherwise genial interview in the Philadelphia Inquirer, TOM BROKAW's hackles were raised. Asked for comment, Brokaw remarked that he didn't "want to pick an argument with Dan," but he did recall the time that Connie Chung anchored an entire broadcast from the ice skating rink where Tonya Harding...
...Lost Highway had preceded Wild at Heart (or Eraserhead or Blue Velvet), it might give off a sense of otherworldly menace. But we've visited this planet before, become familiar with its obsessions and grotesqueries until they hold as little terror as garden gnomes. And while it's always a tonic in this timid film age to see directors try something different, Lost Highway is the same different. Someone should tell Lynch that noir is a genre, but weird...
...little revenge once in a while?" asked Ann Oster, 45, who works in real estate in New Jersey. Living well, of course, is the best revenge of all: after the screening, Kenner gave each of her friends a special First Wives memento--a string of pearls in a little velvet pouch...
AILING. MEL TORME, 70, velvet-voiced song stylist; after a stroke; in Los Angeles. Torme was hospitalized in guarded condition after developing pneumonia and a partially collapsed lung...
...itself is nothing special. A dog sits holding a diploma in its mouth over a subtitle reading, "Obedience school graduate." Then a second dog trots onscreen, proudly bearing a purple-velvet pouch with a bottle of Crown Royal whiskey inside. "Valedictorian," reads the subtitle. Typical, right...